The Liberating Power of Mindfulness

1440 Multiversity800 Bethany DriveScotts Valley,CA95066

https://1440.org/program/liberating-power-mindfulness/

Find yourself on autopilot? In our busy modern life, opportunities to engage in deep and sustained self-inquiry are rare—inquiry that revolutionizes your understanding of self and transforms how you exist in the world.

Join seasoned meditator and dharma teacher Will Kabat-Zinn for an intensive yet lighthearted approach to mindfulness practice. Step away from the business of your day-to-day, quiet your restlessness, and look deeply into the nature of your experience in order to give rise to new ways of living, breathing, and being.

This immersive weekend retreat will include alternating periods of guided sitting, walking, and moving meditation, with an emphasis on bringing vivid awareness into each moment.

Will Kabat-Zinn

Program Description

Find yourself on autopilot? In our busy modern life, opportunities to engage in deep and sustained self-inquiry are rare—inquiry that revolutionizes your understanding of self and transforms how you exist in the world.

Join seasoned meditator and dharma teacher Will Kabat-Zinn for an intensive yet lighthearted approach to mindfulness practice. Step away from the business of your day-to-day, quiet your restlessness, and look deeply into the nature of your experience in order to give rise to new ways of living, breathing, and being.

This immersive weekend retreat will include alternating periods of guided sitting, walking, and moving meditation, with an emphasis on bringing vivid awareness into each moment.

Faculty Bio

Will Kabat-Zinn is a mindfulness and meditation teacher whose passion is to help people wake up to their own deepest nature. Will spent close to a decade in and out of silent retreat, primarily in the Insight Meditation tradition and was deeply influenced by his time with the late Sayadaw U Pandita of Burma and Chan Master Sheng-Yen.

Will has taught meditation to diverse populations including neuroscientists at the Mind & Life Summer Research Institute, incarcerated youth in the South Bronx, Rikers Island, and Oakland, and business and technology leaders in Silicon Valley. Together with his wife Teresa Will developed and taught a mindfulness curriculum for parents as part of a long-term study on stress and cell aging at University of California, San Francisco.

Will is a member of the Spirit Rock teacher’s council and Board of Directors, ands leads a weekly meditation group in Berkeley, SundaySanga.net. He lives in the East Bay with his wife and two children.

Why Attend

Step away from the hustle and grind of everyday life and reap the benefits of a long and sustained practice of self-inquiry so you are less prone to running on habit, distraction, and compulsion.

Come into deeper alignment with your own values so your choices and actions more consistently arise from a place of meaningful and profound intention.

Deepen your meditation practice in a supportive and relaxed environment—Will’s teaching combines a deep experiential knowledge with a certain lightness that comes from not taking oneself or one’s mind too seriously.